Populism Politics in the Current Situation as an Object of Political Analysis - Post-Democracy and Web Populism

Nubar Gurbanova, Ulviyya Khalilova, Rungthum Rangsikul

2018

Abstract

In the modern environment, characterised by inconsistency and instability, there is a deep crisis in the socio- economic, political and constitutional-legal spheres, and the phenomenon of populism has become widespread in our society. The current political situation and the development trend in the US, Europe and many developing countries can generally be described as a "crisis of leaders". This phenomenon brings great uncertainty both in domestic and international politics. Modern liberal democracies are not able to provide citizens with full access to participation in political life: that is why the grey electoral zone is growing every year, and populist movements and leaders come to power in a number of countries. This article is devoted to the phenomenon of contemporary populism. Attempts at its conceptualisation give rise to a contradiction: populism is often described as a phenomenon which is completely ineradicable, but marginal, receding when the situation is normalised; and at the same time, in discourses that interpret modernity in the categories of post-politics, postmodernism, post-democracy, post-ideology, etc., populism appears as a system-forming element of the modern political field. Recent situations in Turkey, Russia and Myanmar were taken as a case for the paper. The aim of this article is to find answers to the following questions: What does this concept mean and why does populism act as an impeding factor in the development of democracy? What measures exist to minimise these political means that are dangerous for today's reforms?

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gurbanova N., Khalilova U. and Rangsikul R. (2018). Populism Politics in the Current Situation as an Object of Political Analysis - Post-Democracy and Web Populism.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 37-41. DOI: 10.5220/0008816400370041

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Nubar Gurbanova and Ulviyya Khalilova and Rungthum Rangsikul},
title={Populism Politics in the Current Situation as an Object of Political Analysis - Post-Democracy and Web Populism},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={37-41},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008816400370041},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - Populism Politics in the Current Situation as an Object of Political Analysis - Post-Democracy and Web Populism
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Gurbanova N.
AU - Khalilova U.
AU - Rangsikul R.
PY - 2018
SP - 37
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0008816400370041